{"id":4091,"date":"2009-06-17T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:33:02","slug":"flaunt-my-unfunbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/flaunt-my-unfunbag","title":{"rendered":"Flaunt My (Un)Funbags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;I wish I&#8217;d made this up&#8221; department, the following press release just rolled through my healthcare newswire:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Scots-Men-Get-the-Issue-of-prnews-15545368.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scots Men Get the Issue of Moobs Off Their Chests in Time for Summer &#8211; Male Surgery in Scotland Sees 80 Per Cent Growth<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GLASGOW, Scotland, June 17 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group has revealed that despite the drooping economy Scots men are opting to perk themselves up this summer by booking in for moob removal surgery and finally getting their insecurities off their chests.<\/p>\n<p>Transform revealed that although there has been a 44 per cent increase in the procedure across the UK, the group&#8217;s Scottish clinics have seen the popularity of the procedure increase by 80 per cent from 2007 with 40 operations being carried out in 2008 compared to 2007&#8217;s 22.<\/p>\n<p>Transform&#8217;s Scottish clinics also found that the number of enquiries for the procedure ballooned in the spring time from men who were preparing to shed layers of clothing during the Scottish summer months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You really need to <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Scots-Men-Get-the-Issue-of-prnews-15545368.html\" target=\"_blank\">read the whole thing<\/a>. I guess I need to have Boob Week on this site sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;I wish I&#8217;d made this up&#8221; department, the following press release just rolled through my healthcare newswire: Scots Men Get the Issue of Moobs Off Their Chests in Time for Summer &#8211; Male Surgery in Scotland Sees 80 Per Cent Growth GLASGOW, Scotland, June 17 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Transform Cosmetic Surgery Group has revealed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/flaunt-my-unfunbag\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flaunt My (Un)Funbags&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-13Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1959,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/meet-the-g-that-kilt-me","url_meta":{"origin":4091,"position":0},"title":"Meet the G that kilt me","author":"Gil","date":"March 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm still pretty busy, dear readers, so why don't you spend some time with this excellent essay from The Nonist on the Fake History (and fake history-making) of the Tartan? 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He also doesn't seem to attach any psychological significance to the fact that he's been compulsively buying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3220,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-11209","url_meta":{"origin":4091,"position":3},"title":"What It Is: 1\/12\/09","author":"Gil","date":"January 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: I tried Richard Flanagan's novel, The Unknown Terrorist, but quit after 35 pages. I don't know how to put it exactly, but the prose itself was hateful. I really don't get the Kundera pastiche in the first 2 pages, either. 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